NANTERRE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oberthur Technologies, a world leader in the field of secure technologies, was awarded the coveted Élan Award for Best Secure Financial Card Design at the International Card Manufacturing Association (ICMA) EXPO, held last week in Hollywood, Florida. ICMA is the largest association of plastic card manufacturers and personalisers in the world. Its purpose is to promote the plastic card industry and the value of its products and services.
Oberthur Technologies won the design and manufacturing award for the Miss Kitty Perfume card for China Merchants Bank (CMB), one of the top 100 banks in the world. The card uses Oberthur Technologies’ new Smart Fragrance technology- allowing the cardholder to put its own perfume or sent of choice into its card.
“Oberthur Technologies understands its customers’ needs to continually innovate and we work diligently with them to provide the best products for their markets,” said Cédric Collomb, General Manager Card & Services, Card Systems Division at Oberthur Technologies. “CMB came to us with the goal of appealing to feminine cardholders while still maintaining their strong brand identity so we came up with our Smart Fragrance card design.”
Oberthur Technologies is a corporate member of ICMA with 14 manufacturing sites and over 30 service centers around the world to provide customers with innovative products, services and solutions.
About Oberthur Technologies
Oberthur Technologies is a world leader in the field of secure technologies: systems development, solutions and services for smart cards (payment cards, SIM cards, access cards, NFC…) and for secure identity documents, traditional and electronic (identity card, passport, health care card), production of banknotes, cheques and other fiduciary documents, intelligent systems to secure cash-in-transit and ATM. Oberthur Technologies has 6,800 employees through 40 countries and 65 sites. The Group posted 2010 sales of €979M.
Website www.oberthur.com
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Contacts
Oberthur Technologies
Corporate:
Charlotte LAFONT-MACHIN
Telephone: +33 1 55 46 71 23
Email: c.lafont-machin@oberthur.com
or
Card Systems Division:
Stéphanie CAU
Telephone: +33 1 47 85 58 06
Email: s.cau@oberthur.com
or
North and South America Press:
Leana Benson Hersch
Phone: +1 310 868 1318
Email: l.hersch@oberthur.com
Miss Kitty Perfume card for China Merchants Bank (CMB) (Photo: Business Wire)